Because an AP reporter was abruptly requested to go from San Francisco to Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters to see something worth the trip, the AP understood Google wasn't joking about Gmail.
After arriving at a still-developing corporate facility that would eventually become the "Googleplex," the AP writer was shown into a modest office where Page was seated at his laptop with an impish grin.
Google, Apple, and others sell data center storage because people hoard email, images, and other stuff. ("Google charges $30 for 200 gigabytes and $250 for 5 terabytes." Gmail's existence is also why other free email providers and employee email accounts offer more storage than 20 years ago.
We were attempting to change people's minds because they'd been operating in this storage scarcity model for so long that deleting was the default action, Buchheit said.
After Gmail, Google Maps and Docs with word and spreadsheet apps followed. After acquiring YouTube, Google introduced Chrome and Android, which powers most smartphones. Google's stated goal to scan email content to better understand users' interests left little question that digital spying to sell more adverts would be part of its expanding objectives.
Gmail was initially constrained because Google only had adequate computing power to service a small number of users, despite its early success.
As more of Google's enormous data centers came up, joining up for Gmail became easier, but the business didn't start accepting everyone until 2007's Valentine's Day.
A few weeks later, on April Fool's Day 2007, Google announced "Gmail Paper," allowing users to print their email archive on "94% post-consumer organic soybean sputum" and have it delivered by the USPS. Google was kidding then.
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